Special: Who Do You Think You Are? Stories of Self-Identity
07/03/2009 at 2:00 p.m.
This hour we present several stories that explore the idea of self–identity. A young woman suffers brain damage and learns to appreciate her new 'quirkier' self. A visual artist descends into the dementia of Alzheimer's. Along the way, his self–portraits illustrate his shifting self–perception and, eventually, his loss of self. A folksinger wonders who he is if he can no longer sing. And a woman who grew up mixed–race in America explains her alter ego: Secret Asian Woman.What's On Today
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Alice Kaderlan Dance Review: Connecting to Tap and Hip-Hop Dance Traditions
Hip-hop dance started on the streets nearly 40 years ago. But tap dance has a much longer history — and much older performers. Bill Evans is a choreographer and performer who established a modern dance company here in Seattle in the mid 1970s. Nationally, he's known for... More »
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Finding Flavor Notes in Food
Wine can have flavor notes like leather or vanilla or minerals. Local, seasonal food can also have distinct notes of flavor. And those notes can lead a cook to come up with unexpected food combinations. That's how the chef at Seattle's Canlis restaurant develops his specials.... More »
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
How 'Natal' Will Change How We Play
Video games do more than train us to kill zombies and dance our way to revolution. Gaming technology may inspire innovations in everything from email to virtual medicine. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter who joins us every week for a look at how high tech works... More »
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Naomi Shihab Nye on Connecting with What Matters
In her collection, "Honeybee" (Greenwillow, 2008), writer Naomi Shihab Nye finds a metaphor for our constant busy–ness in the phenomenon of colony collapse disorder — the unexplained demise of thousands of honeybees. Literary producer Elizabeth Austen talks... More »
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Gavin Borchert Classical Music Review: The Dr. Atomic Symphony
When the atomic bomb was first detonated in the New Mexico desert in 1945 some thought the blast might ignite the earth's atmosphere. The tension that surrounded the project is the subject of John Adam's 2005 Opera "Dr. Atomic." Our music critic Gavin Borchert saw... More »
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Nancy Pearl Book Reviews for 6/27/2009
Perrin Ireland's novel "Chatter" is about a woman who discovers, 18 years into her marriage, that her husband has a daughter from a previous relationship. Our book reviewer Nancy Pearl says it's also about the reality of the post 9/11 world; a place where people find... More »
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Machines and Memories: A Ride on the B-17 Bomber
At one point during the Second World War the Boeing Company in Seattle manufactured sixteen B–17 bombers a day. These marvels of human ingenuity and engineering helped the Allied Forces win the war. KUOW's Dave Beck recently rode a restored B–17 bomber from Port... More »
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Living on Mountain Time
Glaciers and wild animals don't keep a strict schedule. They're part of an environment billions of years in the making. But many of us rush through the wilderness, eager to accomplish something. Not Karen Edmundson Bean. She's a documentary filmmaker from Los Angeles, so she... More »
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